The distribution facility at 834 Performance Drive in south Stockton will employ 50 people.

Lifestyle also owns a 177,000-square-foot warehouse in Fremont, where it is based, as well as manufacturing facilities in Malaysia and China.

The company began producing convertible furniture 23 years ago and now has a diverse collection of products for the entire home. Its furnishings are found in Costco, Walmart, Target, Sleep Country and Mattress Discounters, among other retailers.

In a statement released by the San Joaquin Partnership, Sean Pathiratne, the company’s chief executive, found Stockton transportation assets especially attractive, saying it "offers tremendous opportunity for logistics due to it being close to the intermodal railroad systems."

Area intermodal rail facilities, where shipping containers can be quickly and efficiently moved between trucks and trains, include the Burlington Northern Santa Fe facility in southeast Stockton and Union Pacific’s rail yard in Lathrop.

Michael Ammann, partnership chief executive, said the new business reflects San Joaquin County’s strengths in transportation logistics and providing lower-cost expansion space for Bay Area companies.

“It’s a movement from the East Bay out here; that’s been a long-term trend for manufacturing s well as warehouse distribution,” he said. “This is our core market, these types of businesses.”

Ammann said Lifestyle Solution’s growth is also a reflection of changing consumer habits.

“You will find consumers are going to a lot of the discount retailers and buying furniture,” he said.

Stockton economic development director, Micah Runner, also welcomed the newcomer.

"It's always a competitive market to attract new business investments to a community, and we are excited that Lifestyle Solutions has chosen the city of Stockton,” he said in an email.

Runner credited city employees who worked closely with Lifestyle Solutions “early on in the process to help make it happen.”

The partnership reported that Haggerty Construction of Stockton providing improvements to Lifestyle Solutions new building. And Michael Goldstein, executive managing director of the Colliers International office in Stockton, helped broker the sale.